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Venice. A street. Enter RODERIGO and IAGO
RODERIGO
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Never | tell me,| I take | it much | unkind||ly
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That thou |(Ia|go) who | hast^had | my purse,
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As if | the strings | were thine,| shouldst^know
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IAGO
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But you'll | not^hear | me. If | ever I | did^dream
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Of such | a mat|ter, abhor | me.
RODERIGO
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Thou | toldst
me,
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Thou didst | hold him | in thy | hate.
IAGO
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De|spise me
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If I | do not.| Three great ones | of the city,
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(In pers|onal suit | to make | me his |
lieuten||ant)
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Off-|capped to him:| and by | the faith | of man,
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I know | my price,| I am worth | no worse | a
place,
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But he |(as lov|ing his own | pride and |
purpo||ses)^
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Evades | them, with a // bombast cir|cumstance,
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Horri|bly stuffed | with ep|ithets | of war,
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Nonsuits | my med|iat|ors. For | Certes,| says he,
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I have al|ready | chose my | officer*.| And what | was he? (hex with
prev)
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Forsooth,| a great | arith|meti|cian,
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One^Mich|ael Cas|sio,| a Flor|entine,
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(A fel|low al|most damned | in a / fair wife)
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That nev|er set | a squad|ron in | the field,
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Nor the | divis|ion of | a bat|tle knows
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More than a | spinster.| Unless | the book|ish
the||oric: ??
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Wherein | the tongu|ed cons|uls can | propose
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As mast|erly | as he.| mere* prattle |(without |
practice)
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Is all | his sol|diership.| But he (sir) had |
the elec||tion; ??
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And I |(of whom | his eyes | had seen | the proof
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At Rhodes,| at Cyp|rus, and | on oth|er grounds
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Christian,| and heath|en) must | be be-leed,| and
calmed
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By deb|itor, and | creditor.| This
count|er-cast||er,
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He |(in good time)| must^his | lieuten|ant be,
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And I |(God* bless | the mark)| his
Moor|ship's^an||cient.
RODERIGO
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By heaven,| I rath|er would | have been | his
hang||man.
IAGO
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Why*, there's | no rem|edy,
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'Tis the | curse of |
service; (tri with prev)
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Prefer|ment goes | by letter,| and af|fection,
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And not | by old | grada|tion, where | each
sec||ond
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Stood^heir | to the first.| Now sir,| be judge |
yourself,
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Whether I | in an|y just | term am | affined
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To love | the Moor?
RODERIGO
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I would / not fol|low him then.
IAGO
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O | sir | content | you.|
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I fol|low him,| to serve | my turn | upon him.
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We can|not all | be mast|ers, nor / all mas||ters
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Cannot | be tru|ly fol|lowed. You | shall mark
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Many a | dute|ous and / knee-crook|ing knave;
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That (dot/ing on his | own ob|sequious | bondage)
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Wears out his time,| much^like | his mast|er's
ass,
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For nought | but prov|ender, and | when he's old |
cashiered.
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Whip me | such^hon|est knaves.| Others | there are
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Who trimmed | in forms,| and vis|ages | of
du||ty,
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Keep | yet^their hearts | attend|ing on |
themselves,
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And throw|ing but shows | of serv|ice on | their
lords,
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Do well | thrive by | them.
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And when | they have lined | their coats
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Do them|selves hom|age.
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These fel|lows have | some soul, (tri with prev three)
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And such | a one | do* I profess | myself.| For
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It is | as sure | as you | are Rod|eri|go,
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Were I | the Moor,| I would | not be | Ia|go:
(hex with prev)
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In fol|lowing him,| I fol|low but | myself.
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Heaven is my | judge, not^|I for | love and | duty,
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But seem|ing so,| for my | pecul|iar end:
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For when | my out|ward ac|tion doth^dem|onstrate
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The nat|ive act,| and fig|ure of | my heart
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In comp|liment | extern,| 'tis not | long^af||ter
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But I | will wear | my heart | upon | my sleeve
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For daws | to peck | at; I | am not | what
I am.
RODERIGO
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What a / full for|tune does | the thick|lips^owe
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If he | can car|ry it thus?
IAGO
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Call up her | father:
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Rouse him,| make^aft|er him, pois|on his | delight,
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Proclaim | him in the | streets. In|cense her
| kinsmen,
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And though | he in | a fert|ile clim|ate dwell,
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Plague him | with flies:| though that | his joy |
be joy,
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Yet throw | such chan|ges of | vexa|tion on it,
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As it | may lose | some col|or. \\
RODERIGO
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Here is | her fath|er's house;| I'll call |
aloud.
IAGO
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Do, with | like tim/orous ac|cent, and / dire
yell,
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As when |(by night | and neg|ligence)| the fire
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Is spied | in pop/ulous | cities.
RODERIGO
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What ho:|| Braban|tio,| Signior | Braban|tio, ho.
IAGO
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Awake:| what ho,| Braban|tio:/ thieves, thieves.
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Look to | your house,| your daught|er, and | your
bags,
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Thieves, thieves.
[BRABANTIO appears above, at a window]
BRABANTIO
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What | is the reason | of this | terrible
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Summons?| What is | the mat|ter there?|
RODERIGO
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Signior | is all | your fam|ily | within?
IAGO
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Are* your doors | locked?
BRABANTIO
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Why, where|fore ask | you this?
IAGO
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Sir, you're robbed,| for shame,| put on | your
gown,
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Your heart | is burst,| you have / lost half
| your soul
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Even now,| now, very | now, an | old black ram
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Is top|ping your / white ewe.| Arise,| arise,
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Awake | the snort|ing cit|izens | with the bell,
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Or else | the devil | will make | a grand|sire of
you.
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Arise | I say.
BRABANTIO
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What, have | you lost | your wits?
RODERIGO
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Most reve|rend sig/nior, do | you know | my
voice?
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Not I:| what are | you?
RODERIGO
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My name | is Rod|eri||go.
BRABANTIO
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The wor|ser wel|come:
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I | have charged || thee not | to haunt |
about | my doors:|
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In hon|est plain|ness thou | hast heard | me say,
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My daught|er is not | for thee.| and now | in
mad||ness
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(Being full | of sup|per and | distemp|ering
drafts) ??
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Upon | mali|cious knave|ry, dost | thou come
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To start | my qui|et.
RODERIGO
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Sir,| sir,| sir.
BRABANTIO
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But thou | must^needs | be sure, ????
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My spir|it and | my place | have in | them power
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To make | this bit|ter to | thee.
RODERIGO
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Pa|tience good sir.
BRABANTIO
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What tellst | thou me | of rob|bing? \\
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This is | Venice;| my house | is not | a grange.
RODERIGO
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Most^grave | Braban|tio, \\
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In simp|le and / pure soul,| I come | to you.
IAGO
Sir: you are one of those that will not serve God, if the devil bid you.
Because we come to do you service, and you think we are ruffians, you'll have
your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, you'll have your nephews neigh
to you, you'll have coursers for cousins; and gennets for germans.
BRABANTIO
What profane wretch art thou?
IAGO
I am one sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor, are now
making the beast with two backs.
BRABANTIO
Thou art a villain.
IAGO
You are a senator.
BRABANTIO
This thou shalt answer. I know thee Roderigo.
RODERIGO
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Sir, I will | answer | anything.| But I be|seech
you
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If it be | your pleas|ure, and / most wise |
consent,
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(As part|ly I find | it is)| that your fair |
daughter,
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At this / odd-ev|en and / dull watch | of the
night
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Transport|ed with | no^worse | nor bet|ter guard,
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But with a knave | of com|mon hire,| a
gon|dolier, ??
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To the / gross clasps | of a | lasciv|ious Moor:
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If this | be known | to you,| and your |
allow||ance,
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We | then have done | you bold,| and sau|cy
wrongs.
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But if you | know not^|this, my | manners | tell me,
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We have | your^wrong | rebuke.| Do not | believe
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That from | the sense | of all | civil|ity,
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I thus | would play | and trifle | with your
reve|rence.
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Your daught|er (if | you have / not given | her
leave,
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I say | again,| hath made | a gross | revolt,
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Tying her | duty,| beauty,| wit and | fortunes
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In an ex|travagant,| and wheel|ing strang|er,
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Of here,|| and eve|rywhere:| Straight
sat/isfy^|yourself.
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If she | be in | her chamb|er, or | your house,
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Let^loose | on me | the just|ice of | the state
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For thus | delud|ing you.
BRABANTIO
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Strike | on the tin|der, ho:
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Give me a | taper:| call up^|all my | people,
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This ac|cident | is not | unlike | my dream,
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Belief | of it | oppres|ses me | alrea||dy.
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Light,| I say,| light.
[Exit above]
IAGO
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Fare|well: for I must | leave you.
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It seems not meet,| nor whole|some to | my
place
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To be | produced |(as if | I stay,| I shall)
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Against | the Moor.| For I | do know | the state,
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(Howev|er this | may gall | him with | some
check)
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Cannot with | safety | cast him,| for he's |
embarked
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With such | loud reas/on to | the Cyp|rus wars,
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(Which^even | now stands in act)| that for |
their souls,
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Anoth|er of | his fath|om, they | have none,
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To lead | their bus|iness:| in which | regard,
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Though I | do hate | him as I // do hell-pains,
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Yet, for | neces|sity | of pres|ent life,
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I must | show^out | a flag,| and sign | of love,
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(Which^is indeed | but^sign)| That you shall |
surely | find him ??
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Lead to | the Sag|ittar|y the rais|ed search:
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And there | will I | be with | him. So |
farewell.
[Exit. Enter, below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with torches]
BRABANTIO
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It is / too true | an ev|il. Gone | she is,
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And what's | to come | of my | despis|ed time.
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Is nought | but bit|terness.| Now Rod|eri||go,
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Where | didst thou see | her? (O | unhap|py girl)
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With the Moor | sayst thou?| (Who would | be a |
father?)
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How didst | thou know | 'twas she?| (O she
de|ceives me
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Past^thought:)| What said | she to you?| Get more
| tapers:
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Raise^all | my kind|red. Are | they mar|ried think || you?
RODERIGO
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Truly | I think | they are.
BRABANTIO
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O heaven:| how got | she out?
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Oh treas|on of
| the blood. (tri with prev)
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Fathers,| from hence | trust^not | your
daught|ers' minds
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By what | you see | them act.| Is there not
charms,
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By which the | proper|ty of | youth, and | maidhood*
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May be a|bused? Have | you not^|read Rode|rigo,
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Of some | such thing?
RODERIGO
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Yes | sir: I | have indeed.
BRABANTIO
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Call up my | brother:| oh would | you had | had
her.
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Some one way,| some^anoth|er. Do | you know
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Where we | may ap|prehend | her, and | the Moor?
RODERIGO
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I think | I can | discov|er him,| if you please
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To get | good* guard,| and go | along | with me.
BRABANTIO
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Pray you | lead^on.| At eve|ry house | I'll call,
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(I may | command | at most)| Get^weap|ons (ho)
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And raise | some spe|cial of|ficers | of night:
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On good | Rode|rigo,| I'll deserve | your pains.
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